Acclaimed author of American Wife and Eligible Curtis Sittenfeld will be in conversation with Meri Fatin for her only Australian event to discuss her new novel Rodham on Tuesday 26th May 2020 at the time below relevant to your location:
9.30pm QLD/NSW/VIC/TAS
9.00pm SA/NT
7.30pm WA
6.30am Minneapolis, USA
Rodham is her newest novel about what could have been. What if Hillary Rodham had turned down Bill Clinton's proposal of marraige?
‘Awfully opinionated for a girl’ is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb. Smart, diligent, and a bit plain, that’s the general consensus. Then Hillary goes to college, and her star rises. At Yale Law School, she continues to be a leader— and catches the eye of driven, handsome and charismatic Bill. But when he asks her to marry him, Hillary gives him a firm No.
With her sharp but always compassionate eye, Sittenfeld explores the loneliness, moral ambivalence and iron determination that characterise the quest for high office, as well as the painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world ruled by men.
Uncannily astute and witty in the telling, Rodham is a brilliant reimagining – an unmissable literary landmark and truly a novel of our times.
